Human populations have depended on the oceans for centuries for food, mineral resources, security, transportation, and many other reasons. Increasing prospects for the oceans, including access to seabed minerals and marine genetic resources to ensure sustainable development—generate renewable energy, are helping to increase interest in exploiting and controlling the oceans. On the other hand, human pressures on the oceans—i.e., underwater noise, marine plastic pollution, pollution with nutrients, offshore oil explorations, consumption of fossil fuels, shipping and port activities—from land, atmospheric and offshore sources, and climate change has led to an exceptional and unprecedented level of stress on the oceans. Multiple human uses and benefits from the seas are causing gradually increased human pressure and associated changes to seas and oceans, marine ecosystems and coastal marine habitats that include fishing, the spread of non-indigenous species, pollution by contaminants and nutrient enrichment, seabed damage, and so on. In response to these challenges, the concept of ocean governance has been developed. The emerging issues in ocean governance include plastics pollution, blue carbon, ocean acidification, deep-sea mining, large marine protected areas, biodiversity conservation on the high seas, aquaculture, small-scale fisheries, and so on. All these emerging issues, in addition to other scientific efforts, need appropriate rules and regulations to govern the various associated consequences while ensuring the rule of law. Therefore, it merits developing a timely connection between the marine sciences, ocean governance and the rule of law. This research topic will explore new paradigms and domains of ocean governance and the marine environment from the interdisciplinary perspectives of rule of law.
This topic will follow the updated development concerning ocean governance from legal concepts and practices to the emergence of the present situation of ocean governance. It will also examine the related challenges in recent decades and how it differs from traditional practices. Also, it will bring a more critical stance from diverse authorship across the globe to shed light on the role, the rule of law plays in forming the governance of new frontiers of the marine environment and the impacts this paradigm can have on ocean governance outcomes.
This topic will also assess the multiple impacts and pressures on seas by collecting masterpieces from distinguished authors across the areas concerning the rule of law governing the new frontiers of oceans and the marine environment. This effort ultimately leads to a more holistic, integrated assessment of the marine environment or ecosystem health of the contemporary oceans. In addition, to come up with the novel scientific research results, this research topic will assist the stakeholders with an emerging multidisciplinary approach in collecting pertinent data management, data reporting/flows, recent developments in the marine sciences, and assessments supporting the development and implementation of relevant policies, most up-to-date and relevant information-sharing and the indicators of the marine environment, networking for better communication and coordination in ensuring better ocean governance and the healthy marine environment through the rule of law.
Scope and information for authors:
• the rule of law in the ocean governance;
• the role of ocean governance in sustaining the marine environment;
• the legal concerns surrounding the degradation of the marine environment;
• ocean governance ensuring marine environment;
• recent developments in the marine sciences in connection with the ocean governance;
• offshore activities concerning the exploitation and exploration of natural resources and their impacts on the oceans;
• human pressures on fishing affecting the marine ecosystem integrity;
• port and shipping activities endangering the marine environment;
• impacts of marine litter and underwater noise on the ecosystem health; and
• the need for interdisciplinary as well as global cooperation concerning ocean governance in context with the marine environment for mutual global benefit.
Human populations have depended on the oceans for centuries for food, mineral resources, security, transportation, and many other reasons. Increasing prospects for the oceans, including access to seabed minerals and marine genetic resources to ensure sustainable development—generate renewable energy, are helping to increase interest in exploiting and controlling the oceans. On the other hand, human pressures on the oceans—i.e., underwater noise, marine plastic pollution, pollution with nutrients, offshore oil explorations, consumption of fossil fuels, shipping and port activities—from land, atmospheric and offshore sources, and climate change has led to an exceptional and unprecedented level of stress on the oceans. Multiple human uses and benefits from the seas are causing gradually increased human pressure and associated changes to seas and oceans, marine ecosystems and coastal marine habitats that include fishing, the spread of non-indigenous species, pollution by contaminants and nutrient enrichment, seabed damage, and so on. In response to these challenges, the concept of ocean governance has been developed. The emerging issues in ocean governance include plastics pollution, blue carbon, ocean acidification, deep-sea mining, large marine protected areas, biodiversity conservation on the high seas, aquaculture, small-scale fisheries, and so on. All these emerging issues, in addition to other scientific efforts, need appropriate rules and regulations to govern the various associated consequences while ensuring the rule of law. Therefore, it merits developing a timely connection between the marine sciences, ocean governance and the rule of law. This research topic will explore new paradigms and domains of ocean governance and the marine environment from the interdisciplinary perspectives of rule of law.
This topic will follow the updated development concerning ocean governance from legal concepts and practices to the emergence of the present situation of ocean governance. It will also examine the related challenges in recent decades and how it differs from traditional practices. Also, it will bring a more critical stance from diverse authorship across the globe to shed light on the role, the rule of law plays in forming the governance of new frontiers of the marine environment and the impacts this paradigm can have on ocean governance outcomes.
This topic will also assess the multiple impacts and pressures on seas by collecting masterpieces from distinguished authors across the areas concerning the rule of law governing the new frontiers of oceans and the marine environment. This effort ultimately leads to a more holistic, integrated assessment of the marine environment or ecosystem health of the contemporary oceans. In addition, to come up with the novel scientific research results, this research topic will assist the stakeholders with an emerging multidisciplinary approach in collecting pertinent data management, data reporting/flows, recent developments in the marine sciences, and assessments supporting the development and implementation of relevant policies, most up-to-date and relevant information-sharing and the indicators of the marine environment, networking for better communication and coordination in ensuring better ocean governance and the healthy marine environment through the rule of law.
Scope and information for authors:
• the rule of law in the ocean governance;
• the role of ocean governance in sustaining the marine environment;
• the legal concerns surrounding the degradation of the marine environment;
• ocean governance ensuring marine environment;
• recent developments in the marine sciences in connection with the ocean governance;
• offshore activities concerning the exploitation and exploration of natural resources and their impacts on the oceans;
• human pressures on fishing affecting the marine ecosystem integrity;
• port and shipping activities endangering the marine environment;
• impacts of marine litter and underwater noise on the ecosystem health; and
• the need for interdisciplinary as well as global cooperation concerning ocean governance in context with the marine environment for mutual global benefit.
